Unpack HTML Email to Files

Unpacks an HTML email into an HTML file and related files (images and style sheets). The links within the HTML are updated to point to the files unpacked and saved to disk.

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set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email2")

success = email.LoadEml("bonaire.eml")
If (success <> 1) Then
    MsgBox email.LastErrorText
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Is this an HTML email?
If (email.HasHtmlBody() = 1) Then

    '  Unpack the HTML to files.  The image and css URLs
    '  in the HTML are modified to point to the files extracted to disk.
    unpackDir = "c:/temp"
    partsSubdir = "images"
    htmlFilename = "thisEmail.html"
    success = email.UnpackHtml(unpackDir,htmlFilename,partsSubdir)
    If (success <> 1) Then
        MsgBox email.LastErrorText
    End If

    '  If the UnpackHtml method was successful, the
    '  HTML is written to c:/temp/thisEmail.html and
    '  the image files are located in c:/temp/images

End If